Door casing and moulding



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A 'r TOR NE United States Patent DOOR CASING AND MOULDING Anthony R. Barraco, Detroit, Mich.

Application August 20, 1952, Serial No. 305,465 1 Claim. (Cl. 189-46) This invention relates to door casings and mouldings, and more particularly to a novel metallic prefabricated door casing element together with a moulding removably secured thereto.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a metallic pre-formed door frame or casing which incorporates a door stop and which when assembled and secured within a door opening provides a complete unitary door frame.

It is the further object of the present invention to provide in conjunction with said door frame an insulating compound which will absorb shock and minimize noise.

It is the further object of this invention to provide a novel pre-formed door frame or casing which may be easily assembled and secured within door openings and which will facilitate the assembly of building structures.

It is the further object of this invention to make provision within the door frame of certain recessed portions which will cooperatively receive and to which may be secured the door supporting hinge plates as well as the door latch plate.

It is the further object of this invention to provide a pre-formed door frame which is so constructed as to provide for the mounting thereon of moulding securing clips whereby a preformed moulding is removably snapped upon and over portions of the door frame.

It is the further object of this invention to provide a novel pre-formed clip adapted for mounting upon the door frame, and a pre-formed metallic moulding which is so constructed as to cooperatively snap over such clip and be retained in position.

It is the further object of this invention to provide additional moulding clips of such construction as will cooperatively receive the base board or any other wall trim or moulding in a building construction.

These and other objects will be seen from the following specification and claims in conjunction with the appended drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a door frame with the moulding thereon and with a door positioned within said frame.

Fig. 2 is a section taken on' line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a section taken on line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary elevational view partially broken away illustrating the mounting of the door trim upon a portion of the door casing.

Fig. 8 is a section taken on line 8-8 of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig; 7 illustrating the mitering of the door frame elements, the mounting of the door trim securing clips thereon, and portions of the door trim.

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary front elevational view illustrating a portion of the base board and door trim.

Fig. 11 is a section taken on line 11-11 of Fig. 10; and

,Fig. 12 is a cross-sectional view of the door casing.

It will be understood that the above drawings illustrate ice merely the preferred embodiment of the invention and that other embodiments are contemplated within the scope of the claim hereafter set forth.

Referring to Fig. 6 of the drawings, there is shown a pair of upright beams 13 and 14 arranged upon opposite sides of a door opening, in any building construc tion, and transversely thereof have upon their opposite longitudinal edges the Wall panels 15 and 16 with the corner trim elements 25.

The present invention contemplates the positioning within the pre-constructed door openings of a building, a novel door casing which is unitary in form and is preformed to the cross-sectional shape shown in Fig. 12.

Said door casing includes the upright flat portion 17 which terminates in the right angular longitudinally extending wall board engaging flange 18, Fig. 6. Said door casing also includes a second longitudinally extending fiat plate 20 which terminates at its outer edge at the right angular longitudinally wall board engaging flange 19.

It will be seen from an examination of Fig. 6 that the preformed door casing is snugly positioned within the door opening, as also shown in Figs. 1, 7 and 9, with the meeting portions of right angular elements of said door casing being mitered at 53 as shown in Fig. 9 to thereby provide a finished door casing or frame when the door frame elements are assembled and secured to the bounding portions of the door opening.

In Fig. 6 it is apparent that the plate portion 20 of the door casing terminates at the right angular longitudinally extending portion 21, and this latter portion terminates in the right angular longitudinally extending plate 22 to thereby define a continuous longitudinally extending door stop, which cooperatively receives peripheral portions of the door 32a within the door opening, in a conventional manner.

Instead of providing a separate beading or door stop, the door frame is pre-formed with the door stop 21-22 as an integral part thereof.

It will be seen from Fig. 6 that the flat portion.22 of said door frame terminates in the irregularly shaped portion 23 which joins the flat plate portion 17 upon the far side of the door stop as viewed in Fig. 6.

It is merely necessary that the door frame elements 17-20 be cut to the correct lengths and properly mitered for positioning within the conventional door opening and for securing therein.

As the door frame is metallic, provision is made for the absorption of any additional noise which might be produced upon the closing of the door 32a. This is accomplished by coating the interior surfaces of the plate elements 17-20, as well as the interior portions of the door stop elements 21-22 with an insulating or sound absorbing material 24.

The door casing elements may be secured to the bounding portions of the door opening by means of a plurality of nails 27 which extend through the pre-formed longitudinally spaced transverse openings 26 in the door casing flanges 18 and 19. The nail heads 28 cooperate with said flanges and effectively secure the door casing elements immovably to the bounding portions of the door opening.

Formed within the elongated plates 20 of the door.

and cooperatively receive one of the door supporting hinge plates so that the outer surface of said hinge plate is coplanar with the outer surface of the door casing plate 20.

Said depressed portions 29 have transverse circular screw receiving openings 31' therein in registry with the threaded nuts 32 which are initially secured as by welding or otherwise to the outer surface of said depressed portions as shown in Fig. 3'. Consequently, one of the leaves or hinge plates when positioned within the recess 30 adjacent depressed. plate 29, may be effectively secured therein by a sheet metal screw or other type screw which cooperatively engages the nuts 32.

As shown in Fig. 12, these nuts are properly positioned and secured upon the door frame elements in the initial manufacturing operation.

As shown in Fig. 3, a portion of the wall trim 25 may be cut away as at 31 in order to cooperatively receive the depressed plates 29 and the nuts 32 secured upon their inner surfaces. It is contemplated that the preforming of the recessed portions 29 within the door frame provide a standardized and positive location for the door hinge plates and eliminates much of the guess work and much of the time and labor now employed in properly securing the door hinge plates. All of this effort is eliminated by positively p'redetermining the location of the recessed portions 29 for receiving the door hinge plates.

It is alsocontemplated that upon the opposite side of the door opening to which portions of the pre-formed door casing are secured, there will be formed within such portions of the door casing an additional recessed portion 35 as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, which will be adapted to receive the conventional latch plate. As shown in Fig. 1, door 32a has a mounting plate 23 for the knob 32 and the key opening 34 is formed therethrough.

The recessed portion 35 is bounded by the formed elements 36 of such dimension as to snugly receive a conventional latch plate whose transverse opening will register with the corresponding rectangular latch receiving opening 37 formed in said depressed portion 35. The latch plate will be secured in position so that its outer surface will be coplanar with the outer surface of the door casing plate 20. Said latch plate may be secured in position by a pair of screws which project through the pro-formed openings 38 in the depressed plate 35 and through the nuts 39 which are immovably secured in the first instance upon the opposite surfaces of the depressed plate 35 in the same manner as above described with respect to the depressed portions 29 in Figs. 2 and 3.

Similarly, a portion of the wall trim 25 may be recessed as at 40, Fig'. 5, to cooperatively receive depressed plate 35 and the nuts 39 secured thereto.

By this construction the formation of the door casing is further facilitated in predetermining the location of the latch plate for the door within the depressed formation or plate :35-36 in the door casing plate 20.

Whilethe present invention contemplates that said door casing elements may be immovably secured within the door openingby the nails 2728, it is also contemplated that if desired these same nails may be used for securing upon the door casing flanges 18 and 19 the longitudinally spaced door trim or moulding securing clips 41 as illustrated in Figs. and 6.

Said clips are pre-formed and have an offset portion 42 at one end which is spaced from the adjacent flange 18 or 19, as shown in Fig. 6. The opposite end of the clip 41 has an angularly outwardly directed portion 43 which terminates in the reversed turned end portion 44, which is spaced from the adjacent wall element 16.

The longitudinally extending pre-formed door moulding or door trim 45 includes the longitudinally extending right angular portion 46 which terminates in the longitudinally extending inwardly directed, flange 47 which cooperateswith the clip element 44. The opposite side of thedoor-trim.45 has a right angular elongated portion 48; which; terminates in the inwardly directed longitudinally;extended flange 49, best illustrated in Fig. 6, which eooperatesrwith the offset portion 42 of clip 41.

To assemble the door trim or moulding 45, the flangesaid'clipand the opposite flange 49'is rotated and snapped into the position shown in Fig. 6 in cooperation with the reversed turned clip element 44. This construction provides a very simple effective way of mounting a preformed moulding or door trim upon the wall adjacent the door opening by securing the mounting clips directly to the pre-formed casing.

It is contemplated that the ornamental moulding may be of any desired figuration or cross-sectional shape. it is merely necessarythat the opposed inturned flanges 47 and 49 so cooperate with the end portions 42 and 44 of the clips 41 as to permit said moulding to be snapped into place. The corresponding meeting ends of the door trim 45 are necessarily mitered at the corners of the door opening the same as the mitering 53 of the door casing in Fig. 9. An ornamental corner clip of any desired cross-sectional shape is provided so as to cover the mitered corners as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. Said corner clip being designated by the numeral 49 and including the right angular end wall 50 which terminates in the slightly inturned flange 51 which cooperates with the corresponding end wall 46 of the moulding 45. Furthermore, the ornamental corner clip 49 has a second right angular edge portion 52, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, which cooperates with the corresponding end wall 48 of door trim 45.

By this construction, it is apparent that the ornamental corner clips may be removably snapped into position over the mitered corners of the door moulding. While one form of corner clip is illustrated in Fig. 7, it is contemplated that there may be many such forms of ornamental corner clips which will be so constructed as to be removably snapped into position as shown.

Figs. 10 and 11 illustrate a wall moulding or base board trim of a construction similar to the door moulding above described. A plurality of longitudinally spaced upright clips 54 are secured by the nails 27-28 along the base of the wall, said clips being laterally displaced at their upper ends as at 55-, so as to be spaced outwardly from the wall board 16, as illustrated in Fig. 11. The opposite end of the clip 54 is curved outwardly and slightly reversed turned as at 56.

The moulding strip 57 or base board is also of a preformed construction of any desired shape and may be metallic or of a plastic material; The strip 57 has an elongated inwardly directed flange 58 substantially at right angles to the strip 57 and the marginal portion of flange 58 is inturned as at 59 for cooperable engagement around the reverse turned portion 56 of clip 54.

The opposite longitudinal portion of strip 57 includes the inclined flange 60 whose longitudinal edge is reverse turned inwardly as at 61 for positioning under the laterally displaced end 55.

By this construction, it is apparent that this upper reverse turned edge 61 of the moulding 57 is first inserted between the clip element 55 and the wall element 16, whereby said moulding is suspended throughout its upper longitudinal edge. Thereafter, the lower portion of the moulding is snapped overthe reverse turned portion 56 of clip 54 so that the inturned marginal edge 59 of moulding flange 58 cooperatively and retainingly engages under a portion of the reverseturned clip element 56, all in the manner shown in Fig. 11. It is contemplated that the reverse turned portion 56 of clip 54 provides a certain resiliency to the corresponding end of clip 54 to permit the snapping on of the moulding 57 to the clips 54.

This provides a very ornamental type of moulding inasmuch as the securing clips are completely enclosed and out'of sight. This construction eliminates unsightly nails or'other fastening devices heretofore employed in using mouldings made of wood.

Having described my invention, reference should'now be had"- to the claim whichv follows for determining the sco e thereof.

Iclaim:

In a door casing for a building structure having a wall with a door opening formed therein, an elongated metallic panel positionable within said opening at right angles to said wall throughout the wall boundaries of said opening, opposed elongated flanges projecting at right angles from opposite edges of said panel bearing upon opposite sides of said wall adjacent said opening, said flanges having a plurality of longitudinally spaced transverse apertures formed therethrough adapted to receive fastening means cooperable with said wall, a continuous door engaging bead formed from the inner surface of said panel intermediate its width and at right angles thereto throughout its length, a sound insulating material coated upon the outer surface of said panel adjacent said wall, said panel having formed therein a plurality of spaced laterally depressed portions parallel to the plane of said panel on one side of said bead forming rectangular recesses adapted to receive one of the hinge elements of a door positioned within said panel, said depressed portions having transverse screw openings therethrough, nuts secured upon the outer surface of said depressed portions in registry with said screw openings, said panel having an additional laterally depressed portion opposite from said first depressed portions forming a recess adapted to cooperatively receive a transversely apertured latch plate, and with transverse screw openings in said depressed portion, and additional nuts secured to the outer surface of said additional laterally depressed portion in registry with its transverse openings.

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